Why trust Greenbot
Speaking at Rutberg’s Future: Mobile conference in Half Moon Bay, California, the head of Samsung’s North America division said that devices with bendable screens are “right around the corner.”
Lee’s comment come just a couple of days after a report from Bloomberg which claimed that Samsung will be launching two smartphones with foldable screens early next year.
“I think it’s relatively right around the corner,” Gregory Lee said, speaking Thursday at Rutberg’s Future:Mobile conference in Half Moon Bay, Calif.
The executive noted that Samsung has had bendable display prototypes since the last 10 years, but it has not been able to bring them to the public because they are very difficult to produce at a reasonable cost.
Samsung was the first company to launch a smartphone with a screen that is curved on its edges in 2014. It then followed it up with the Galaxy S6 edge and Galaxy S7 edge in the following years that has made curved AMOLED screens a commonplace. The company has also been showing off its bendable screens at various consumer electronic shows since the past few years, but it has never revealed when it actually plans to use them in consumer devices. Now, it looks like the time has finally come, and we might just see Samsung release a device with a bendable screen before the end of this year.
[Via Re/code]
